ACS Orpheus Alliance News
January 4, 2005
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Texas Composers Schedule Exchange Lectures and Masterclasses Prof. Jason Hoogerhyde and Prof. Timothy Cutler will give exchange lectures during the spring semester. In addition to discussing their own compositional style, they will conduct masterclasses for student composers. This set of lectures is the fifth in a series begun by the Orpheus Alliance in 2002. The purpose is to give students the change to work closely with faculty from a variety of ACS music departments. These events lay the groundwork for future collaborations at the ACS New Music Festival and elsewhere. Anyone interested in participating in an exchange should write gray@colleges.org. Prof. Jason Hoogerhyde Southwestern University Prof. Timothy Cutler Austin College

Luna Nova Spring Concerts Luna Nova (www.lunanova.org), the ACS new music ensemble, will perform on three ACS campuses during the spring semester. On January 22, they will appear as part of the Sonoklect Concert Series at Washington and Lee University. The concert will include the premiere of Paris Quintet by W&L composer Terry Vosbein. The quintet was written for Luna Nova during Vosbein's composer's residency in Paris in the summer of 2004. On February 28, Luna Nova will be part of the McCoy Visiting Artists Series at Rhodes College. On March 21, the ensemble will appear at Davidson College where they will premiere of a new work by faculty composer Jennifer Stasack. Davidson Artist Associate Diane Thornton will join the ensemble to perform the new work which is a setting of texts by Davidson poet and Professor of English Alan Michael Parker.

Prizes and Performances Prof. Charles Mason of Birmingham-Southern received honorable mention in the Truman State University MACRO Composition Contest for his work Expressway. The world premiere of Dreams, Memories, and Musical Reactions by Centenary professor Todd Gabriel, D.M.A., will be presented by New York City's Mannes College of Music on Jan. 24, 2005. The concert will be at the Mannes Concert Hall on West 85th Street. The work, for trombone and piano, will be performed by trombonist Haim Avitsur, on the faculty of the Mannes College of Music Extension Division. Prof. Dorothy Hindman of Birmingham-Southern was awarded third place in the Vienna Masterworks Competition for Opera for Louise: the Story of a Magdalen (2002) full length opera with libretto by Sally M. Gall, scored for chamber orchestra.

2005 Student Composition Contest Guidelines ACS student composers are invited to submit scores for the fourth annual ACS Student Composition Contest. Students must be enrolled in music composition studies at an Associated Colleges of the South or NITLE Southern Region institution during the 2004-2005 academic year. Complete guidelines for entry are available on the ACS website at: www.colleges.org/~music/ACScontest.html

Student News Miles Barger (Centre College) student of Larry Bitensky, assistant professor of music at Centre, was hired by sculptor Zoe Strecker to compose the music to accompany her latest installation which illustrates the dangers in households and day-to-day environments. Barger uses ambient sounds such as traffic, children playing and nature, along with readings from instruction manuals, vocals, synthesizers and drum machines. Barger's piece, lasts about 20-25 minutes and plays while people view the artwork. Laura Daigle (Centenary '05) won the Outstanding Student Presentation Award for the paper she presented at the Association for Technology in Music Instruction conference held in conjunction with the College Music Society meeting in San Francisco in November, 2004.